Citizen science networks often allows scientists to accomplish research objectives more readily than would otherwise be possible, using individual volunteers, often non-scientists, to perform research-related tasks .
Regulations require monitoring before starting operations at a CO2 storage site.
Tsunamis are truly multi-hazardous global phenomena because the different mechanisms result in their wide geographic spread and impact.
Much of the world’s population faces a threat to the quality and availability of their drinking water.
Shrink–swell, or expansive, soils are one of the most costly and widespread geological hazards globally, with costs estimated to run into several billion pounds annually.
BGS was involved in Technical Co-operation projects in Sumatra with the Indonesian Ministry of Mines and Energy since 1975.
In September 2017, one of the largest geomagnetic storms of the current solar cycle hit the Earth after a coronal mass ejection left the Sun.
The BGS Rock Classification Scheme (RCS) is a corporate standard setting out a practical, logical and robust system for classifying and naming geological materials as they appear at the scale of a single exposure, hand specimen, or thin section.
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